BannerFlux Flash Ads

I'm getting more and more irritated with MochiMedia's insistence on using their ads to drive traffic to their MochiGames portal. Unpaid, unwanted sponsorship of a competing portal for anyone using their APIs. The sheer amount of links in a game is costing traffic, and therefore money. So, I've started looking into alternatives. Unfortunately, there aren't many.

CPMStar is considered one of the best ad networks, but before you can use their ads in games you have to be approved as a publisher. Which I've been waiting on for over a year now.

So, I've made a version Castle Match 2.1 which uses BannerFlux ads and GamerSafe leaderboards. I picked GamerSafe because it also has a, very beta, bridge for posting scores to the site the game is hosted on. This version can be downloaded here and I'll probably add more games here, although only ones which use AS3.

Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss on Chrome

I've released Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss as a free app on Google's Chrome web store. I've got no real idea how it will do, and there's a $5 fee to pay before you're allowed to publish apps, but this is a one-time fee and I doubt it can hurt adding extra ways of playing games.

Flash Games Update

Here are the current total earnings from my Flash games to date from all sources.

Castle Match:
MochiAds: $1.80

Castle Match 2:
MochiAds: $1.81

Castle Match 2.1:
MochiAds: $5.32

Constellation Pairs:
Fizzy: $1.44
Kongregate: $0.40
MochiAds: $3.06
TOTAL: $4.90

Constellation Slots:
MochiAds: $2.97
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $2.98

Easter Egg Match:
MochiAds: $15.91

Easter Egg Match 2:
Kongregate: $0.15
MochiAds: $9.36
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $9.52

Easter Egg Slots:
Kongregate: $0.23
MochiAds: $17.75
TOTAL: $17.98

Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss:
Competitions: $500
Fizzy: $28.90
Kongregate: $1.12
MochiAds: $24.08
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $554.11

Mars Slider:
Kongregate: $1.96
MochiAds: $3.96
TOTAL: $5.92

Meteor Storm:
Kongregate: $1.28
MochiAds: $5.36
Sitelocks: $250
TOTAL: $256.64

Monster Traffic:
Kongregate: $1.92
MochiAds: $2.40
TOTAL: $4.32

Obama Uppy:
Kongregate: $1.34
MochiAds: $7.05
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $8.40

Picture Find:
Fizzy: $1.95
Kongregate: $0.63
MochiAds: $314.56
MochiAds Chinese: $0.20
TOTAL: $317.34

Pong:
MochiAds: $5.66

Pyramid Solitaire:
Competitions: $500
Fizzy: $24.75
Kongregate: $1.47
MochiAds: $65
MochiAds Chinese: $0.62
MochiAds Publisher: $0.01
TOTAL: $591.85

Quiz Me:
Fizzy: $5.02
Kongregate: $0.77
MochiAds: $12.95
MochiAds Publisher: $0.01
TOTAL: $18.75

Space Match:
MochiAds: $1.21

Space Match 2:
MochiAds: $1.67

Space Match 2.1:
MochiAds: $4.32

Space Slots:
Kongregate: $1.04
MochiAds: $28.64
MochiAds Chinese: $1.81
MochiAds Publisher: $0.07
TOTAL: $31.56

Sphere Avoider 2:
Kongregate: $0.61
MochiAds: $0.99
TOTAL: $1.60

Sphere Avoider Variant 1:
Kongregate: $0.33
MochiAds: $1.34
MochiAds Publisher: $0.01
TOTAL: $1.68

Sphere Avoider Variant 2:
Kongregate: $0.35
MochiAds: $1.55
TOTAL: $1.90

Sphere Avoider Variant 3:
Kongregate: $0.50
MochiAds: $1.80
TOTAL: $2.30

Spooky Pairs:
Fizzy: $3.28
Kongregate: $0.59
MochiAds: $12.33
TOTAL: $16.20

Spooky Pairs 2:
Fizzy: $2.14
Kongregate: $0.20
MochiAds: $10.12
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $12.47

Spooky Slots:
Kongregate: $0.82
MochiAds: $28.71
TOTAL: $29.53

The Sky is Falling:
Kongregate: $0.60
MochiAds: $1.78
TOTAL: $2.38

UFO Assault:
Kongregate: $2.05
MochiAds: $2.82
TOTAL: $4.87

Wordsearch: Constellations:
Fizzy: $1.57
Kongregate: $0.33
MochiAds: $4.37
TOTAL: $6.27

The biggest earners are now Pyramid Solitaire and Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss thanks to competition winnings, followed by Picture Find from its MindJolt impressions and then Meteor Storm from the sitelock sold.

Kongregate Earnings for November

The total earnings from Kongregate for November were $0.13, again not very impressive.

Fizzy Earnings for November

The total from earned from Fizzy for November was $16.16, once again the highest amount earned.

MochiAds Earnings for November

The total earned from MochiAds as a developer was $46.82, slightly up from last month, although total impressions were down. Pyramid Solitaire was the highest earner for the month, due to a substantial increase in eCPM. Picture Find was second for once, and Spooky Pairs 2 was third again, still due to Halloween related impressions.

Earnings as a publisher were $0.45, up by slightly more than 50% from the previous month, although total impressions were slightly lower.

MochiAds Payment Received

I've received another payment of $122.38 from MochiAds. This is for earnings from July to October.

Kongregate Earnings For October

The total earned from Kongregate in October was $0.26, the majority of this from Spooky Pairs 2 during the few days it was present there.

Fizzy Earnings for October

The total earned from Fizzy for October was $12.49, the highest yet. Two new games were added during October, Spooky Pairs and Spooky Pairs 2.

I still don't have final figures for September. A couple of days before the end of the month, the stats stopped updating, and after the end of the month, September's figures were never added. I contacted support, and was told it was being looked into, but haven't heard anything else yet.

This is fairly important as, going by what the last figures were from Fizzy for September that I know of, I passed the $50 payment threshold today.

MochiAds Earnings for October

The total earned from MochiAds for October as a developer was $45.11, again up substantially from the previous month. Impressions were also up. Picture Find and Pyramid Solitaire were once again the highest earners, with the newly released Spooky Pairs 2 coming in third, based on the three days it's been on general release. Older releases, Spooky Pairs and Spooky Slots did well for this month.

The total earned as a publisher was $0.29, slightly up from last month as were impressions.